Indicator.



Patented Apr. 22, |92. E. V. BEALS.

IN D l C AT 0 H (Application led Apt. 18, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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INDICATOR.

SPECFlCATIONforming part of Letters-Fatemi: No. 698,356, dated April 22, 1902.

Application tied April 1s, 1901.

T @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERL V. BEALS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of' Massachusetts, have invented certainA new and useful Improvements in IndicatingvDevices, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates generally toindicating devices, and it relates more particularly to indicating devices adapted for employment on leather-measuring and other machines to indicate the area or ,otherl statistics of each individual piece whichis subjected to the action of the machine and the sum-total of th individual readings. 1

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement, which I shall now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of an indicator constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal axialsection. Fig. 4 represents a side elevation,ipartly broken away. Fig. 5 represents a detail section of the correcting device. Fig. 6 represents a horizontal section and plan thereof. Fig. 7 represents a view of parts shown in Fig. 3 in dissembled condition. Fig. 8 represents a rear elevation of the total-indicator. Fig. 9 represents a section showing the said indicator in side elevation. Fig.- 10 represents a section on the line 10 10 of Fig. 2.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

ln the drawings,- 22 represents the indicator generally.

represents a shaft adapted to form a part of or to be applied to a leather-measuring or other measuring machine, which is rotated intermittently in different degrees according to the measurements of the pieces which are successively subjected to the action of the machine, the rotation being always in one direction. On said shaft 2O is a bevel-pinion 28, meshing with a bevel-gear 27, which rotates a pointer-shaft 26, carrying a pointer 24. This pointer sweeps over a dial 23, having an index graduated in suitable units, as square feet, and is adapted to be returned to zero position after each reading, said pointer 24 having for this purpose a finger-knob 52 Serial No. 56,388. (No model.)

on its hub and a frictional connection with the shaft 20, comprising a shoulder 103 on the shaft, against which the hub of the pointer is seated, an adjustable nut 109 on the shaft outside yof the pointer-hub, anda spring 51 interposed Vbetween the said nut and the pointer-hub. Thepointer-hub is provided with an arm V111, adapted on each outward movement of the pointer to engage the lower toe 112 of an oscillating pawl-carrier 113, having a pawl 114, which engages a ratchet 115 on the shaft 116 of a counter. Said counter, as shown, comprises a series of wheels 117 117 andsuitable connections whereby each succeeding wheel makes one revolution for ten of the preceding wheel, whereby the total number of strokes ofthe pointer 24, and hence the total number of articles measured, are registered. After the reading of the pointer has been observed and tallied by the attendant by marking said reading on the article measured or otherwise the pointer is returned to Zero position, and in this return the arm 111 strikes against the upper toe 11S of the pawl-carrier 113 and moves said pawl-carrier back to its initial position, allowing the pawl 114 to make a new tooth on'the ratchet 115.

119 is a crown-gear mounted to rotate with the shaftor arbor 26 and engaging a pinion 120 on the shaft12l of a total-indicator. Said indicator comprises wheels 122 122, connected in a manner similar to the 'wheels 117 117, so as to add up the total of the successive readings of the pointer 24. The readings of the counter-wheels 117 117 andthe total-indicator Wheels 122 122 are observed through slots 123 124 in the dial 23. A screw-plate 125, connected by screws 126 126 to the crown-gear memberllQ, lies between the gear 27` and an end plate 133, secured to the rear end of arbor26. Plate 133 is attached to gear 27 by screws 141 141. Gear 27 is connected by dowels 127 127 to a friction-plate 128, which bears against a correcting-wheel 129, the latter being in turn connected by dowels 130 130 to the crown-gear member119. The gear 27 and friction-plate 128 therefore rotate together, and the correcting-wheel 129 and crown-gear 119 rotate together. Friction plate 12S is pressed outwardly against the correcting- Wheel129 by springs 131 131, passing through holes 132 132 in the web of the gear 27 and IOO fifi resets bearing against the end plate 133. lly this arrangement the axial pressure ot the springs 131, transmitted through the friction-plate 12S and correcting-wheel 129 to the crowngear 119, is brought back through the retain ing screw-plate 125 to the outer tace ot gear 27, and is hence entirely borne by the end plate 133. The arbor 2G is therefore relieved of all axial pressure and tendency to bind in its bearin e". The correcting-wheel 129 is provided with a series of conical holes 13i13t, placed close together around its periphery. 135 is a dog mounted to slide in a xed socket 136 on the dial 23 and having a conical rear end adapted to enter any ot the holes 134:, said dog being normally pressed by a spring 13 forwardly away from contact with 'the correcting-plate 129. On its forward end the dog 135 is provided with a pivoted cam member 138, normally pressed by a leaf-spring 139 into a position inclined to the face ot the dial 23. On the back side of the pointer 2-1 is a projection 1110, adapted on the outward movement of said pointer to pass under the cam member 133 between it and the dial and lift its free end away from said dial and on the return movement ol said pointer adapted to ride over the inclined outer face of the cam member and press said cam member into a position substantially parallel to the dial 23, thereby forcing the dog 135 rearwardly into engagement with the correcting-wheel 129.

Supposing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 1, the., represented on the face ot the dial in Fig. 1, to represent square feet, itwill be noted that the intermediate portions represent eighths, quarters, and halves of square feet. The holes 13sL in the correcting-wheel 129 are arranged at distances apart corresponding to the quarter-divisions of the dial. Supposing that on the outward movement of the pointer 2e it were to indicate a reading of ten and slightly more than a quarter, the correcting-wheel 129 would then stop with one of its holes 134c in a position slightly out of register with the conical end of the dog 135. On the return of the pointer to Zero the dog 135 in its rearward movement will exert a cam action against the sides of the hole 13% and bring it into full register with the dog,

thus moving the wheel 129 and the total-in-l dex backward to indicate the nearest quarter without disturbing the rotary position of the arbor 2G. if the pointer instead of stopping at a full ten and a quarter had stopped at a scant ten and a half, the opposite side of the hole 13e in Fig. G would have been nearest to the point of dog 135, andthe correcting-plate 129, carrying with it the total-index shaft, would have moved forward to indicate an exact ten and one-half. The total-index will therefore always record the one-quarter division nearest which the pointer stops. Since it is the custom in measuring skins and other articles to read the units-index to the nearest quarter or other division instead of reading its exact position, the total-index it it merely summed up the total of the movements ofthe shaft 29 would not correspond to the sum oi the readings tallied by the attendant from observing the units-index. XVith my invention this reading will tally.

1n practice the point ot the dog 135 and the edges between the holes 13t are made so sharp that the dog will not lodge and stay between two holes even though the pointer 21 stops exactly between two quarter divisions of the scale. This reading seldom occurs, but if it should the operator may observe upon resetting` the pointer 21 whether the total-index moves ahead or back and tally his reading accordingly. It will be seen that the correcting device is operative throughout the cycle of the total-indicator.

The correcting device obviously might be arranged 'to be operated otherwise than by the return of a movable indicator member, such as the pointer 21 For instance, it might be operated manually.

1n the drawings the totalindicator and the counter are represented conventionally. Their specific construction forms no part ol my invention and is not represented in detail, since such devices are already well known.

1. An indicator, correct ing means having a predetermined influence in opposite directions to correct said indicator to its fractional divisions,said means being operative throughout the cycle of the indicator, a unidirection imlieator-propelling shaft, and a slip connection between said indicator and shaft.

2. A primary indicator, a secondary indicator actuated proportionately thereto, provisions tor resetting the primary indicator independently of the secondary indicator, and means actuated by the resetting of the primary indicator and having a predetermined influence in opposite directions to correct said secondary indicator to its fractional divisions.

A primary indicator having a series or indicating divisions on or between which it indicates, a secondary indicator actuated proportionately to said primary indicator, provisions for resetting the primary indicator independently of the secondary indicator, and means actuated by the resetting of the primary indicator for correcting the secondary indicator to the nearest of said divisions indicated by the primary indicator.

et. An indicator, and a correcting device therefor comprising a rotary member connected to the indicator and a stationary member, one ot' which is a wheel having a series of cam divisions and the other a coacting camdog adapted to register the cam divisions with itself, and provisions for bringing said mem-- bers into and out of coacting relation.

5. A device for indicating the measurements of a series of articles comprising a sha'lftwhose rotarymovoments are to be incas- IOC) IIO

nred, a total-indicator provided with a movable indicating member having a slip connection With said shaft, a primary indicator for individual indications provided with a movable indicating member having a slip connection With said shaft whereby it may be returned after an indication, and a correcting device for the total-indicator comprising a rotary member connected to the movable totalindicator member, and a stationary member, one of which is a Wheel having a series of cam divisions and the other a coacting camdog adapted to register the cam divisions with itself, and provisions for bringing said members of the correcting device into coact- 

